French Montana headed out to Rahway, New Jersey this week, to visit his longtime friend and former collaborator Max B while he completes his bid at East Jersey State Prison. Max had previously been hit with a 75-year sentence for his involvement in a botched kidnapping and robbery attempt, but recently had it significantly shortened. Reports vary, but some say the rapper can be home as early as the next few years. Check out a clip from French’s visit below!

There has now been documents filed to have “El Chapo” removed from solitary confinement. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s lawyers is asking if he can be placed with other inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.

Suge Knight is behind bars for allegedly killing one man and injuring another in a hit and run on set of Straight Outta Compton in 2015. He has been locked up since the incident, and has been awaiting a trial that has been pushed back multiple times. His latest scheduled date is this summer. The Death Row mogul has also been in solitary confinement for nearly two years now as well – and his son, Suge Jacob Knight, is not happy with how is father is being treated.

Earlier this fall, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy released a cookbook filled with easy recipes he learned to make while incarcerated – something helpful not only to current inmates but also college kids with little resources in their dorm and even every day folks who just aren’t into cooking like that! Unfortunately, the entire state of California does not see it as such, and has banned Kitchen Commissary from all prisons in the state. Taking to Instagram, P revealed a letter from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where they explained their reasoning for the ban was because of the book’s recipe for liquor, known as “hooch” behind bars. presents their reasoning behind the ban, stating “The publication contains information and instructions on how to produce inmate manufactured alcohol,” which, of course, doesn’t fly.

Welp. It was all good for Brendan Dassey as he was about to be released from prison. We now learn he will be behind bars a bit longer than expected. A federal appeals court has ruled that Wisconsin prison officials should ignore the ruling of a lower court, which ordered the release of Brendan Dassey.

Heather Jones has now been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her 7-year-old step son. The young boy was fed to pigs after being killed. A judge sentenced Jones to life in prison without a chance at parole until she’s served 25 years.

This is crazy. After last night’s election, a private prison’s stock has gone up! The Huffington Post has reported that after Donald Trump’s victory was declared, stock prices went up significantly for America’s two largest private prison contractors. CoreCivic is the nations largest private prison contractor. It’s stock up by 58% and GEO Group, the second largest contractor’s, stock raised by 28%.

Ok, so wait. First…I guess I could have assumed that Danny Trejo had been to prison just because of how he looks and the characters that he plays right? But wouldn’t that be like racist or stereotypical? Regardless, Trejo was a champion in the jail-house rings…ALL OF THEM…

Just 10 days after being let out from jail, Young Buck will be doing 7 months in the big house for violating his probation. In 2013, Buck was let out on a three-year supervised release after he served time for illegal gun possession.